GROSSMALERMAN

Guy Richards Smit needs $25K to finish Grossmalerman!, the sitcom about a sweaty, successful artist who paints vaginas and is haunted by Basquiat’s ghost. This season features Jibz Cameron, AKA Dynasty Handbag. [Kickstarter]

Sweden has made a catchy, bizarre sing-along music video for children that celebrates genitals. Even old lady vaginas are “elegant.” [Jezebel]

An international round up of how artists get paid, by country. [The Guardian]

In an unattributed piece for artnet News that reads like a reblog of a story that ran in the New York Times this weekend, the author (Twitter presumes it’s Ben Genocchio) complains that the Brant Foundation can be given tax breaks for a museum that isn’t open to the public all-year long, and which has charitable activities including visits by Larry Gagosian. Well, it might not be fair, but it’s legal. [artnet News]

Fuck yeah, one of the first reviews I’ve enjoyed reading this year. Artist Lise Haller Baggesen, author of “Mothernism,” a pro-feminism, science fiction, and disco -ism that seeks to “locate the mother-shaped hole in contemporary art and discourse,” writes about visiting Olafur Eliasson’s “Riverbed” at the Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark. Sometimes she’s poetic—”And when they were up they were up, and when they were down they were down, and when they were halfway up they were neither up nor down.”—but overall, Baggesen’s a good observer. At times imperfect, the essay is still more fun to read than most Artforum-style reviews. GOOD JOB. [Bad at Sports]

Love is an action. A thoughtful and touching account of what happened to the author when she answered psychologist Arthur Aron’s 36 questions with a potential partner. [The New York Times]

Debate over the new Charlie Hebdo cover, to be released tomorrow, a picture of Mohammed crying holding up a sign saying “All is forgiven.” @JulieHarden speculates that Mohammed would be crying knowing what happened because Mohammed is peaceful. [Twitter]

Artist Clayton Cubitt made videos of sexy women reading while getting stimulated under the table with a vibrator. Not fantastic art, but looks like a fun project! The videos went viral. Of course they did. [Clayton Cubitt via artnet News]

A montage of Satanic messages and sex hidden in Disney movies, to what sounds like an unfunny, crazy Bill Hicks rant. This comes with a ***huge*** disclaimer, but the montage is kinda convincing. [Please Kill Me]

Tonight I’ll be appearing on a panel titled “Comedy and Art“, alongside some of the funniest people the art world has to offer: Jibz Cameron (aka Dynasty Handbag), Guy Richards Smit (aka Grossmalerman), Christian Viveros-Fauné, and Ben Davis. I’ve accomplished nothing to earn this, it’s just that Paddy couldn’t make it. Woohoo!!

Anyway, I expect we’ll be interrogating comedy’s appropriate place in the liminal space between postmodernism and the hyper professionalized MFAed art world. How do we be funny? These people know more about that than I do, so I’m posting a Dynasty Handbag GIF and “Santa Baby” performance below. And make sure you watch Grossmalerman, who may or may not be appearing in full on swaggering drunk character this evening.

Guess who’s MCing the Art Fag City Wienerfest and Fundraiser this Sunday? GROSSMALERMAN! He’s an artist who is best known for obsessively painting penises and vaginas, and as the host for the Telethon for the 1 percent. We like him.